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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Large format: 10 1/2"w x 13 7/8"h. 128 pages. Many color illustrations.
111 pages. Brings you recipes from country kitchens the world over. The food is uncomplicated, wholesome, and simply delicious. You'll find superb regional dishes reflecting different lands and people, each having their own particular flavour and syle stemming from local resources and harvests. Presents casseroles, risottos, and pasta dishes, poultry and game dishes, country breads, cakes, puddings and much more, all in vivid colour photography. Unmarked. Minute tears at top and bottom of cover fold. Faint fading along cover fold. Book
Not the athletic sports of the Olympics, but field sports - a survey of hunting and fishing in ancient Greece and Rome."As might be expected, hunting and fishing are the two main themes of the book, though some space is devoted to fowling and other sports. It will certainly surprise many readers to learn how highly developed were the care of horses and hounds, the choice of breed, and the rules of the hunt, and how remarkably near the ancients were to modern ways in much of their practise." Originally published by Ernest Benn.1930. 213p. illus. maps on endpapers. Usual library marks, and ffep missing, but otherwise text is clean and neat. Spine of dj sun faded. Ex-Library
in-8°, 222 pages, ill. en noir et en coul., cartonnage ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [NV-10]
127 pages including index. Includes: soups and savouries; salads and vegetable bounty; sandwiches and picnic snacks; fish and crustaceans; Fowl - young, old and game; the meat of the matter; Jamaican jerk barbecue; accompaniments and embellishments; indulgences; liberal libations. Book
44 pages. Text in English. Features: Focometer 2; In the sign of the Dragon - "Les rencontres Internationales de la Photographie" in Arles; The sharpness game - Werner Kohler - a master of the Leica; The new Leica R6; New 35-70 mm f/3.5 zoom lens for Leica R; 28 mm f/2.8 PC Super-Angulon-R; Winners of the still-life tabletop contest; "Magic" tripod system; Elcovision; Photokina 1988; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Coverage of the Royal Visit; Nice Westclox ad; The Edinburghs - eight pages on the Royal Family - text with numerous photos, including young Prince Charles; How I Photographed the Royal Couple - by Karsh - illustrated with his colour photos, including the Queen with Princess Ann; When a Queen Ruled Britain - article with photos from the Victorian era; The Runaways - story by Ware Torrey Budlong; The Butcher with a Poet's Soul - Canada Packers President James Stanley McLean - article with photos; Let's Abolish Homework, by Sidney Katz; Charlottetown Likes to Laugh - article and photos on the capital of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.); Humor by Robert Thomas Allen and William Frederick Miksch - "Shopping's a game women play but men don't know the score"; Confessions of a Big-Town (Toronto) Cabbie - by John Rowland - article with photo; Nice Kodak colour-photo ad; Vintage Massey-Harris ad shows corn cobs being harvested by a man on an implement with no cab; Cartoon by Peter Whalley; Colour centerfold for Snyder's fine furniture of Waterloo, Ontario features their Dynavista sectional designs; Full-page ad for Imperial Furniture manufacturing of Stratford, Ontario; Nice Chrysler ad; Rare full-page colour Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Recruiting Poster - very nice!; Dodge car ad; The Hargreaves Quads - Joan, Janice, Jennifer and Joyce - are featured in a nice colour ad for Aylmer strained peaches; Betty Grable is featured in a Auto-Lite battery ad; Colour Karsh Portrait of Prince Philip in full-page ad for O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Nice vintage ad for GMC heavy trucks; Babe Didrikson Zaharias - world's greatest woman athlete - featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Several short external archival tape repairs. Bits of writing on front and back covers. Much writing on Westclox ad on page 1. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece, 22 plates of photographs on 14, and numerous historiated initials and a full-page map in the text, free endpapers browned, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original orange pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black, uncut, a remarkably bright, firm copy. Buck's vividly-written account of animal collecting in Asia was first published in New York in 1936. The UK edition is scarce, especially in this condition.
Pages 975- 1022. Features: Nice One-page photo-illustrated travel add for Czechoslovakia; Vintage half-page photo-illustrated ad for the French Riviera and Basque Coast; Cover photo of the king and queen and Princess Elizabeth going aboard the Royal yacht "Victoria and Albert" in Portsmouth Harbour; Photos of Portsmouth welcoming the king; Dramatic photo of assembled warships firing royal salute; Two pages of photos of the fleet illuminated at night; Photo of the king leaving 6 inch gun turret in HMS "Southampton"; Illustrated article discusses the riddle of the markings on Mars; Nice one-page photo of the king and queen returning from St. Paul's in an open landau with princesses Elizabeth and Margaret; Page of nice photos of attendees at the Empire day and coronation Thanksgiving service in St. Paul's; Nice one-page photo of the king and queen with their daughters in their horse-drawn landau before a huge crowd; Two-page illustration of the Empire day and coronation Thanksgiving at St. Paul's; One-page photo of the king and queen at Chelsea; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Alexander Grant, Marshall Voroshilov, Gen. Ismet Inonu, the Duchess of Kent, the Maharajah of Alwar, Dr. S. H. Langdon, the late John D. Rockefeller, who died on May 23, the Duke of Kent, Queen Mary, and Lord Aberconway; Two-page illustration of celebration of the honourable artillery Company's (H.A.C.) 400th anniversary at Olympia; Three photos of the Paris exhibition which has officially opened; Photo of Donald Bain leading crowd of bushmen in Cape Town as he seeks permission from the government to kill game for food; Photo of the shattered deck of HMS "Hunter" after it struck a mine off the coast of Spain, killing eight; Five photos of refugee Basque children brought to England in the "Habana"; Classy one-page Harrods ad features a dining set; Nice one-page ad for Humber's seven passenger Pullman Limousine; One-page ad for Austin Reed men's clothing; One-page photo-illustrated ad for the Hudson Eight Tickford Foursome Coupe; Two wedding fashion photos for women; Classy half-page photo ad for Bentley cars; One-page photo ad for King's College Hospital appeals for financial help; Travel ads for Switzerland, Australia, Bermuda, and more; Colour back page ad for Douglas Stuart (Stuart House of London); and more. Please note: half of centrefold missing, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great issue. Magazine
Pages 593-620. Features: Photo of Marshal Timoshenko's splendid reserves; One-page air-photo indicating bomb damage in Rostock after four-day "Blitz"; Two-pages of illustrations beneath caption "Madagascar daringly planned operations lead to the surrender of Port Diego Suarez in 48 hours; Photo of crew of the submarine "Thunderbolt" (formerly "Thetis") safely home after a year; Photo of French Aircraft-carrier "Bearn" in Martinique; Six photos from Martinique illustrated its plight of barnacled warships and derelict aircraft; Two pages with fourteen photos present "Facets of the War on the Russian Front where Spring Has Heralded New Offensives; The Russian Front Awakens - article with maps of Kharkov and the Kerch Peninsula; The Crete Battle Goes on - five photos; Two pages with twelve photos illustrating Free French Forces Fighting in the Desert Battle Zone; Centrefold illustration shows steel foundry which produced munitions in Napoleon's wars, now making steel for use against Hitler; One-page illustration of molten steel for armour-plating 'tapped' from a giant container; Photos of personalities of the week include Lieut.-Com. Hussey, Mr. Churchill before large crowd at Leeds, and racehorses Big Game and Sun Chariot; One-page illustration of lop-sided flying freak, the Luftwaffe's Blohm and Voss "141" reconnaissance monoplane; Two pages of clear photos showing British Soldiers training on obstacle course; Five photos of life in France under the Nazi heel; Five Barrage Balloon illustrations by Balloon Command artists; nice half-page ad for Tube Investments, Ltd.; Isabel Burton - A Remarkable Woman; Back cover colour ad for Johnnie Walker shows harbour view through window; more vintage ads. Minor nibble from foot of spine. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Book
48 pages. Features: Reconnecting cultures in the Balkans; Art and film leader Rose Issa; Perils - part 4; The Majlis Painters; Voices of Afghanistan; Polo - Game of Kings; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
30 Minute VHS video tape in case. "Whitetail deer are the most popular big game animal to hunt in North America. The sport of bowhunting the whitetail is the ultimate challenge for any hunter. Join 25-year professional veteran Paul Brunner in the rugged mountains of western Montana as he shares with you his accumulated wealth of archery tactics: field practice vs. target practice; scouting vs. stalking; optics; wind patterns; cold-weather hunting; and much more." - from cover. Somewhat above-average wear to case. Tape appears sound. Book
48 pages. Features: Column - Grammar is snobbish nonsense; London Letter column explains political fallout of Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal; Blair Fraser recounts what he saw in Gaza refugee camps; Colourful Allied Van Lines ad; Great one-page colour ad for the 1957 Dodge (with push-button transmission); Blair Fraser Reports from the 'seething cauldron' of Israel - article with photos; Mr. Benturian and the Beautiful Palimpsest; What's it like being married to a genius - Canadian Suzanne Cloutier married Peter Ustinov three years ago - article with photos; Frank McMahon's Five Lucky Lives - great photo-illustrated article on the owner of Pacific Petroleums Limited, of Calgary, backer of "The Pajama Game", and founder of Alberta Distillers Ltd.; Photo-illustrated article on Father Bernard Brown of Aklavik; Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst movies of 1956; Rexall centrefold ad presents dozens of products at 1950s prices; Nice colour ad for Maxwell House coffee; Nice colour ad for the 1957 Monarch car (yellow and white)Richelieu Phaeton Sedan); John Norman Harris describes his most memorable meal; Half-page farewell to Maclean's illustrator Oscar Cahen who was killed in an auto accident on November 26, 1956; Striking Chrysler ad inside back cover features purple 1957 New Yorker; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Great section of colour photos plus others in black and white. Songs include: Friends in Low Places; Mr. Blue; New Way to Fly; Same Old Story; The Thunder Rolls; Two of a Kind, Workin' On a Full House; Unanswered Prayers; Victim of the Game; Wild Horses; Wolves. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.of this throwback to the days when Garth was on top of the world. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper front edge. 165pp. With a series of accounts from works from the mid-17th century to the latter part of the 20th century, the editor introduces us to the changing face of the sport of game shooting over the years.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Yellowing paper. 138 pages.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, very slightly browned at extreme head and tail of backstrip else a very good, c clean copy in the dustwrapper
21x15. 189p. Fotogr. Firma anterior poseedor.
250 pages including index. "Presents a vivid, heartwarming portrait of our national pastime. The roots of hockey have always been in small towns, and as this book so eloquently shows, it is the small towns that still sustain the game." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked. Lightest wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
60 pages. Many reproductions of wonderful archival black and white photos. Features include: The Patrick Family Legend; The First Game; The First Year; The First Stanley Cup; The Second Stanley Cup; The Great Denman Fire; Fred (Cyclone) Taylor; The Life and Times of Coley Hall; The Glorious Smokies; The Brat Called Pistol - Eddie Dorohoy; The Rollicking, Raggedy Vees; The Spirit of the Canucks; The Drillers of Kimberley; The Heart of Fred J. Hume; The Life and Laughs of Babe Pratt; The Palace by the Sea - Pacific Coliseum; The Anatomy of a Franchise; and more. One page CKNW 98 ad highlights play-by-play man Jim Robson. Molson ad features photos of their 1969-70 hockey scholarship winners including: John Cumberbirth, Bob Gaston, Pat Russell, Keith, Nordin, Richard Beauchamp, Daryl Fedorak, Brian Debiasio, Brenk Kaufmann, Robert Little, George Walton and Don Young. One-page pricelist of Canucks merchandise. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this very informative, nostalgic and uncommon work from the year the Canucks entered the NHL. Book
157 p. 8vo. 240 mm. Original full cloth binding. Hardcover. Very good condition. A fine collection of very readable tales. GAMES BOX 5
Maxéville, Köneman, 2000, 32 x 27,5 cm., tela original con sobrecubiertas, 656 págs. con mas de 1.200 fotografías intercaladas en colores.
359p. + Plus color frontis and full page plates. Other plates in black and white. Small 4to. Original gold stamped full leather binding. NH 4
pp. xii, 359 + Publisher's ad. + 48 Halftone color plates. Foxed. 4to. 26.5 cm. Uncut and mostly unopened. Top edge gold. Thick soiled buckram binding. Worn leather spine label. In his introduction, (General) G. O. Shields (Coquina) argues for the protection of these beautiful American bird species; which were being decimated, not only by hunters, but by the fashion to adorn ladies' hats with mult icolored feathers. "Nature is not lavish of her beauties; They are widely scattered and occasionally displayed, to be selected with care, and gathered with difficulty" -- Lord Byron (1821). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W149
254p. + Plus photographs. Picture of author tipped onto title page. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, spine faded. Scarce account of a Brethren Missionary in Africa. AFRICA/3